About the tournament
Through its title and players' objectives, the competition shows strong support to the new candidature of the city of Rijeka for the organization of Mediterranean games in 2017. From this support stems the title "Mediterranean 2017," chess with the scent of the sea. The additional purpose is to promote the town of Rijeka and Croatia in typical chess manner with the goal to obtain the organization of the Mediterranean games. Another goal is that the competition becomes traditional, mainly because is the most important tournament with highest quality and the largest number of players.
System of play: Swiss / 9 rounds.
Tempo of play: 90 minutes for 40 moves + 15 till the end of the match, with 30 extra seconds for each move starting with the first.
The tournament will be registered with FIDE, in order to enable the assignation of rating and title normatives.
Chief arbiters : Eduard Piacun and Nenad Dorić, international arbiters.
Comeptition fee:
- Participation fee: 360 kunas for domestic players; 50 euros for foreign players.
-Grand masters, international masters, under-16 and over-60 participants are not obliged to pay the participation fee.
- Fide masters and Primorsko-goranska county players will pay 50 percent of the participation fee.
Play timetable:
1st round on November 28, 2009 at 16:00
2nd round on November 29, 2009 at 09:00
3rd round on November 29, 2009 at 16:00
4rd round on November 30, 2009 at 16:00
5th round on December 01, 2009 at 16:00
6th round on December 02, 2009 at 16:00
7th round on December 03, 2009 at 16:00
8th round on December 04, 2009 at 16:00
9th round on December 05, 2009 at 10:00
The tournament closing ceremony and the award ceremony will be held on December 5, 2009 at 15:00.
The organizer will provide chess sets for all players. Each player should bring a well-functioning digital watch.